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Poll: Would you like to have polls about regional variations of idiomatic expressions?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
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Yes, but limited to world languages Jun 24, 2024

For the moment, I'm not interested in languages from other planets or galaxies But with time who knows...

[Edited at 2024-06-24 20:55 GMT]

Philip Lees
Iulia Parvu
Liena Vijupe
Lingua 5B
 
Kay Denney
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France
Local time: 05:59
French to English
. Jun 25, 2024

If there are aliens out there, I want to be able to talk with them. Where do I sign up for languages out of this world?

Lingua 5B
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Lingua 5B
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Had a great laugh Jun 25, 2024

The first two posts are hilarious.

Yea, maybe we can add Martian (the Southern version) to our range. I think the AI had not picked it up yet and it'll take quite some time.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Kay Denney
 
WolfgangS
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France
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As already said in a previous message... Jun 25, 2024

...Klingonian or nothing!

Lingua 5B
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Kay Denney
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Zea_Mays
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Italy
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Please explain Jun 25, 2024

What would "polls about regional variations of idiomatic expressions" look like?
 
Chris Says Bye
Chris Says Bye
World languages Jun 25, 2024

We'd be buggered if there were such a thing as world languages.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 05:59
French to English
. Jun 25, 2024

Christopher Schröder wrote:

We'd be buggered if there were such a thing as world languages.



The only thing holding Globish back is that we Brits can't speak it...

Chris Says Bye
 
Charlie Bavington
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French to English
Is there..... Jun 25, 2024

Kay Denney wrote:

Christopher Schröder wrote:

We'd be buggered if there were such a thing as world languages.



The only thing holding Globish back is that we Brits can't speak it...


.... a case to be made that where artificial languages have failed to produce the situation where any human can communicate with any other human, artificial intelligence is on the way to doing so?
 


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